Physicians Assistant yelling “HELP ME” while stealing a CitiBike ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s sad that in the current moment only right wing outlets have any appetite to correct the record. You’d think there’d be at lease a few mainstream editorials on the harm of twitter pile-ons.

I guess I'm waiting for the long expository piece in The Atlantic or The New Yorker that will appear in another year or two. Although the author will bend themselves over backwards to be "fair" to both sides and omit much that could be prejudicial to the guys. Probably Bari Weiss will do something, but nobody needs that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It’s sad that in the current moment only right wing outlets have any appetite to correct the record. You’d think there’d be at lease a few mainstream editorials on the harm of twitter pile-ons.

There was a USA Today opinion piece...
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2023/05/23/citi-bike-karen-danger-confirmation-bias/70242982007/

Thanks for the link.

"All of us can take three steps to overcome confirmation bias and easy access to social media from endangering people and making ourselves look like fools. The first is to slow down and think critically when we read something that perfectly fits our worldview. Second, we must wait for all the facts to come out and look for original sources. Third – and hardest of all – let the evidence dictate our opinion, not the other way around."

And,

"The silver lining of the Comrie incident is that it should confirm the one bias worth keeping: waiting (at least) 48 hours before having an opinion on viral stories."

Sadly, when your income depends on ruining others' lives (I'm looking at you, Monique), you have no reason to take this helpful advice.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Is she’d just acted like the educated, privileged adult that she is.

Privileged because she's 6-months pregnant and coming off a 12-hour shift, and now she has to bike home to her apartment? Where's her chauffeur when she needs him!

Oh. PP means her whiteness is the ONLY thing that matters here. Doesn't matter that she didn't call for the police or anything. She's white, that's all that matters, and so she had no right to expect an e-bike and should have just STFU and pedaled home.

This, which is interesting given the conversations we've had in the last couple decades about intersectionality.

If intersectionality means that we need to think about multiple identities and how they interact (I believe it was first invoked to explain how black women can experience both racism and sexism at once in a way that intersects and is different from both how black men experience racism and how white women experience sexism), then it should matter that the PA in this situation is subject to sexism. And it's relevant that she's pregnant, since pregnancy is considered a form of disability (you can't fire someone for being pregnant, for instance, even if it renders them unable to perform all aspects of their job). Those identities should be relevant to the conversation.

But the people who believe the boys were in the right NO MATTER WHAT think that racism trumps everything else. Nevermind that women have been subjected to violence for being women since the beginning of time, never mind that pregnant women have long experience discrimination. That doesn't matter.

And we haven't even gotten into the fact that these boys are recent immigrants, which means the racism they experience is distinct from the racism that black people in the US whose ancestors were enslaved and subjected to Jim Crow and the lynching era. Which is not to say they don't experience racism, of course they do (and are from a place that was colonized). But it's still a different identity.

People want to impose this simplistic framework on this situation where the PA=white=bad and the boys=black=good and it's as dumb as the reverse framework would be.

What the hell was the point of talking about intersectionality and education people on these topics if it would just be used to flatten the way we interact with each other down to a single metric, skin color, and nothing else?

You sound dumb as heck.

You are a mother-romancing idiot. Christ Almighty.

[Anonymous]

The guy admitted not his bike.

His version is he likes to grab best e-bikes when they come out but docks after 45 minutes to avoid surcharge. Then waits and re-rents same bike. While he was doing this women goes to rent the docked bike and he grabs on to force her to return it so he can re-rent it.

There were other bikes but this precious kid only wanted the new e-bike

[Anonymous]

On the positive side, with the family's new GoFundMe they can now afford to pay a settlement. Previously, there was no point in pursuing them for financial compensation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:On the positive side, with the family's new GoFundMe they can now afford to pay a settlement. Previously, there was no point in pursuing them for financial compensation.

Bingo! The squatter bike kid's GoFundMe is slandering the PA and it's gathering money. Now the PA has reason to sue "whoever" put up the GoFundMe. The teens were foolish and should have just stayed out of the limelight.

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Anonymous wrote:On the positive side, with the family's new GoFundMe they can now afford to pay a settlement. Previously, there was no point in pursuing them for financial compensation.

Bingo! The squatter bike kid's GoFundMe is slandering the PA and it's gathering money. Now the PA has reason to sue "whoever" put up the GoFundMe. The teens were foolish and should have just stayed out of the limelight.

+2. His GoFundMe says Comrie "assaulted" him over the bike. Is that actionable? Could she prove he's asking for money under false pretenses? https://www.gofundme.com/f/the-family-of-the-young-man-in-citi-bike-incident?member=27119691&sharetype=teams&utm_campaign=p_na+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer

If he had just stayed quiet, nobody, including us, would still be discussing this.

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Anonymous wrote:On the positive side, with the family's new GoFundMe they can now afford to pay a settlement. Previously, there was no point in pursuing them for financial compensation.

Bingo! The squatter bike kid's GoFundMe is slandering the PA and it's gathering money. Now the PA has reason to sue "whoever" put up the GoFundMe. The teens were foolish and should have just stayed out of the limelight.

+2. His GoFundMe says Comrie "assaulted" him over the bike. Is that actionable? Could she prove he's asking for money under false pretenses? https://www.gofundme.com/f/the-family-of-the-young-man-in-citi-bike-incident?member=27119691&sharetype=teams&utm_campaign=p_na+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer

If he had just stayed quiet, nobody, including us, would still be discussing this.

An assault is a criminal accusation which would be per se defamation if it is false. The problem is I think the phone thing could be described as an assault.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:On the positive side, with the family's new GoFundMe they can now afford to pay a settlement. Previously, there was no point in pursuing them for financial compensation.

Bingo! The squatter bike kid's GoFundMe is slandering the PA and it's gathering money. Now the PA has reason to sue "whoever" put up the GoFundMe. The teens were foolish and should have just stayed out of the limelight.

+2. His GoFundMe says Comrie "assaulted" him over the bike. Is that actionable? Could she prove he's asking for money under false pretenses? https://www.gofundme.com/f/the-family-of-the-young-man-in-citi-bike-incident?member=27119691&sharetype=teams&utm_campaign=p_na+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer

If he had just stayed quiet, nobody, including us, would still be discussing this.

An assault is a criminal accusation which would be per se defamation if it is false. The problem is I think the phone thing could be described as an assault.

Could she say she was defending herself against him taking the bike she was on? Or is that not really "defense"?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:On the positive side, with the family's new GoFundMe they can now afford to pay a settlement. Previously, there was no point in pursuing them for financial compensation.

Bingo! The squatter bike kid's GoFundMe is slandering the PA and it's gathering money. Now the PA has reason to sue "whoever" put up the GoFundMe. The teens were foolish and should have just stayed out of the limelight.

+2. His GoFundMe says Comrie "assaulted" him over the bike. Is that actionable? Could she prove he's asking for money under false pretenses? https://www.gofundme.com/f/the-family-of-the-young-man-in-citi-bike-incident?member=27119691&sharetype=teams&utm_campaign=p_na+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer

If he had just stayed quiet, nobody, including us, would still be discussing this.

An assault is a criminal accusation which would be per se defamation if it is false. The problem is I think the phone thing could be described as an assault.

Could she say she was defending herself against him taking the bike she was on? Or is that not really "defense"?

How would taking his phone defend herself?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:On the positive side, with the family's new GoFundMe they can now afford to pay a settlement. Previously, there was no point in pursuing them for financial compensation.

Bingo! The squatter bike kid's GoFundMe is slandering the PA and it's gathering money. Now the PA has reason to sue "whoever" put up the GoFundMe. The teens were foolish and should have just stayed out of the limelight.

+2. His GoFundMe says Comrie "assaulted" him over the bike. Is that actionable? Could she prove he's asking for money under false pretenses? https://www.gofundme.com/f/the-family-of-the-young-man-in-citi-bike-incident?member=27119691&sharetype=teams&utm_campaign=p_na+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer

If he had just stayed quiet, nobody, including us, would still be discussing this.

An assault is a criminal accusation which would be per se defamation if it is false. The problem is I think the phone thing could be described as an assault.

Could she say she was defending herself against him taking the bike she was on? Or is that not really "defense"?

How would taking his phone defend herself?

Maybe this isn't a thing and I don't get it. But he was trying to take the bike away from her as part of a sequence that started with him redocking her rented bike and then proceeding to re-rent it under his own name, using his phone.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:On the positive side, with the family's new GoFundMe they can now afford to pay a settlement. Previously, there was no point in pursuing them for financial compensation.

Bingo! The squatter bike kid's GoFundMe is slandering the PA and it's gathering money. Now the PA has reason to sue "whoever" put up the GoFundMe. The teens were foolish and should have just stayed out of the limelight.

+2. His GoFundMe says Comrie "assaulted" him over the bike. Is that actionable? Could she prove he's asking for money under false pretenses? https://www.gofundme.com/f/the-family-of-the-young-man-in-citi-bike-incident?member=27119691&sharetype=teams&utm_campaign=p_na+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer

If he had just stayed quiet, nobody, including us, would still be discussing this.

An assault is a criminal accusation which would be per se defamation if it is false. The problem is I think the phone thing could be described as an assault.

Could she say she was defending herself against him taking the bike she was on? Or is that not really "defense"?

How would taking his phone defend herself?

Maybe this isn't a thing and I don't get it. But he was trying to take the bike away from her as part of a sequence that started with him redocking her rented bike and then proceeding to re-rent it under his own name, using his phone.

Neither one is ok.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:On the positive side, with the family's new GoFundMe they can now afford to pay a settlement. Previously, there was no point in pursuing them for financial compensation.

Bingo! The squatter bike kid's GoFundMe is slandering the PA and it's gathering money. Now the PA has reason to sue "whoever" put up the GoFundMe. The teens were foolish and should have just stayed out of the limelight.

+2. His GoFundMe says Comrie "assaulted" him over the bike. Is that actionable? Could she prove he's asking for money under false pretenses? https://www.gofundme.com/f/the-family-of-the-young-man-in-citi-bike-incident?member=27119691&sharetype=teams&utm_campaign=p_na+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer

If he had just stayed quiet, nobody, including us, would still be discussing this.

It’s interesting they will not state his identity for safety reasons but it is ok to give hers.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:On the positive side, with the family's new GoFundMe they can now afford to pay a settlement. Previously, there was no point in pursuing them for financial compensation.

Bingo! The squatter bike kid's GoFundMe is slandering the PA and it's gathering money. Now the PA has reason to sue "whoever" put up the GoFundMe. The teens were foolish and should have just stayed out of the limelight.

+2. His GoFundMe says Comrie "assaulted" him over the bike. Is that actionable? Could she prove he's asking for money under false pretenses? https://www.gofundme.com/f/the-family-of-the-young-man-in-citi-bike-incident?member=27119691&sharetype=teams&utm_campaign=p_na+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer

If he had just stayed quiet, nobody, including us, would still be discussing this.

An assault is a criminal accusation which would be per se defamation if it is false. The problem is I think the phone thing could be described as an assault.

Could she say she was defending herself against him taking the bike she was on? Or is that not really "defense"?

How would taking his phone defend herself?

She probably took it to see his receipt.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:On the positive side, with the family's new GoFundMe they can now afford to pay a settlement. Previously, there was no point in pursuing them for financial compensation.

Bingo! The squatter bike kid's GoFundMe is slandering the PA and it's gathering money. Now the PA has reason to sue "whoever" put up the GoFundMe. The teens were foolish and should have just stayed out of the limelight.

+2. His GoFundMe says Comrie "assaulted" him over the bike. Is that actionable? Could she prove he's asking for money under false pretenses? https://www.gofundme.com/f/the-family-of-the-young-man-in-citi-bike-incident?member=27119691&sharetype=teams&utm_campaign=p_na+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer

If he had just stayed quiet, nobody, including us, would still be discussing this.

It’s interesting they will not state his identity for safety reasons but it is ok to give hers.

It’s also interesting only one journalist interviewed them and they never posted the interview so who knows if the journalist is truthful given who the interviewer was.